Abstract
Polymer solutions and polymer gels are unstable to extended ageing in divalent cation-rich brines at elevated temperature. This paper shows that low-molecular-weight compounds that complex strongly with Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ are capable of neutralizing their destabilizing influence on polymer solubility and of inhibiting the syneresis of crosslinked acrylamide polymer gels in hard brines. The solubility of the inhibitor-divalent ion complexes formed in hard brine at elevated temperature have also been examined. The results obtained offer the possibility to extend significantly the upper temperature limit for the use of polyacrylamides and acrylamide copolymers in brines in both polymer flooding and polymer gel treatments.
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